Food Environment Policy

Ghana’s food environment has undergone a significant shift in recent years, with an increased accessibility, availability and consumption of processed and ultra-processed foods. These foods are usually high in sugars, salts, and fats, often containing more than the daily recommended intake of these nutrients in a single serving and have low or no nutritional value.

This shift is accompanied by a rise in malnutrition in all its forms, including obesity, and dietary non-communicable diseases such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease and some cancers. To address these growing public health challenges, we are advocating for cost effective food polices, recommended by international organizations as actions to improve the healthiness of food environments.

These policy action includes front-of-pack labelling policy, food marketing restriction policy, public food procurement and service policy and food-related fiscal policy.